“The air raid siren went off.” Former RAF corporal
Richie Turnbull wheezed and coughed as he spoke. He is one of tens of thousands
of Gulf War vets who have been diagnosed with a fistful of illnesses attributed
to his service in the Gulf War. These include emphysema, angina, asthma,
arteriosclerosis, arthritis, short term memory loss, muscle wasting, cough
syncope and numerous other debilitating ailments. Before deployment to the
Gulf, Turnbull was an accomplished and superbly fit sub-aqua diver. Today,
he walks with the aid of canes - slowly.

With understandable pride he told me how he had “proved
Soames to be a liar three times.” The reference was to the former
Conservative Minister of State for the Armed Forces, the Honourable Nicholas
Soames MP. Many vets uncharitably call the former Minister “Fatty
Soames” owing to his handsome girth. The appellation reflects the
seething contempt of an individual who Vets regard as one of the principal
architects of a monstrous transatlantic cover-up.

Turnbull was a Senior RAF Electrician in a Nuclear, Biological
& Chemcial (NBC) unit, and an experienced instructor on NBC equipment.
He was stationed at the giant military base located at Dhahran on the night
of 20 January 1991, when air raid sirens began wailing madly. Incoming Scud
missiles were detected and a nearby US Patriot battery fired off intercept
missiles. One of the missiles downed the Scud which landed a mere 400 yards
from Turnbull. The impact left an 8 foot deep crater but, curiously, the
giant ground to ground missile did not explode. “All the nerve agents
detectors sounded the alarm,” Turnbull recalls. As a NBC expert he
ran three tests which confirmed the presence of “G agent,” otherwise
known as Sarin - the deadly nerve agent developed by the Nazi’s in
WW11. Turnbull ran a further three “Residual Vapour Detector Tests,”
which also showed the presence of nerve agents. In all, he says, “33
items of equipment showed that “chemical weapons had been detected.”[i]

NBC Condition black was sounded and everyone on the base
rushed to don their NBC “Noddy” suits. Incredibly, twenty minutes
later an all clear siren (NBC condition white) sounded and troops removed
their protective clothing accordingly. Twenty minutes later NBC condition
black sounded again, and remained in force for a further 8 hours. Turnbull,
who says he is “absolutely certain it was a chemical weapon attack,”
is understandably angry. Sounding the all clear when nerve agents were shown
to be present was “the biggest cock-up in history,” he said.
Hundreds of troops were needlessly exposed to Sarin, he believes.[ii]

Turnbull continues to be a thorn in the side of Britain’s
Ministry of Defence and the US Department of Defense. Both maintain that
chemical weapons were not intentionally used by Saddam Hussein. A spokesman
at the Ministry of Defence had earlier told me that he was a Royal Navy
officer and was “in theatre” during the Gulf War. He went on
to personally assure me that had the Iraqi’s intentionally used CB
weapons “we would have retaliated in kind” - an allusion to
President Bush’s threat to retaliate with a nuclear strike if Saddam
Hussein unleashed his prodigious chemical armoury on coalition troops. In
the event it was an empty threat… old-fashioned political rhetoric
dished out for the folks at home.

CHEMICAL ATTACKS OR COCK-UP?

Faced with mounting evidence of chemical weapon exposure
by coalition troops, both the British and US governments belatedly acknowledge
that chemical weapon dumps were bombed - or otherwise destroyed - by coalition
forces. They even acknowledge that the resulting plume of toxic material,
blown by the wind, is likely to have exposed many thousands of coalition
troops to these deadly agents. An unforeseen accident in other words. This
admission is known in intelligence parlance as a “limited hangout”
- a technique designed to show that they are now telling the truth. They
are not.

Pat Eddington, a former CIA intelligence analyst in his book
“Gassed in the Gulf” scathingly uncovers the institutionalised
dishonesty within the CIA and the Department of Defence over GWS.[iii] Reasonably,
he argues that based on the increasing number of Vets prepared to speak
of their experiences, it is clear - beyond all doubt - that coalition forces
came under a series of Iraqi Chemical and Biological weapon attacks.[iv]
Like Admiral Nelson placing a telescope over his blind eye then exclaiming
he can “see no ships,” the Mandarins in Whitehall and Washington
are wilfully blind to what they don’t care to acknowledge. Yet, the
evidence is overwhelming.

Ray Bristow had served 20 years with the Territorial Army.
When not involved with his TA duties, Bristow was an operating theatre technician
at his local hospital. He was mobilised on 27 December 1990, promoted to
a Warrant Officer, and sent to the 32 Field Hospital located at Wadi Al
Batin, just a few kilometres away from the town of Hafir Al Batin.[v] On
the 19 January 1991 he and other personnel watched as a Scud missile roared
overhead and exploded in an airburst. He could clearly see a cloud of vapour
discharge from the Scud. The NBC alarms scattered around the base, known
as NAIADS, wailed loudly, alerting the troops of “NBC Condition Black.”
“We were Scudded,” Bristow said, and the specialised equipment
detected the presence of chemical agents.[vi]

Also present at Wadi Al Batin that evening was former Sergeant
Shaun Rusling. Previously with 23 Para Regiment’s 5 Airborne Field
Ambulance, Rusling was an experienced Special Forces medic. His duties were
to attend to the sick and wounded of Britain’s One Armoured Brigade.
This soon grew to encompass caring for other coalition forces and Iraqi
casualties too. He watched the Scud explosion and saw the cloud of vapour
bloom overhead. He also believes the unit came under artillery attack with
rounds containing chemical weapons.[vii] Numerous boxes of 155 mm chemical
ammunition were secretly recovered by coalition troops in the Kuwait Theatre
of Operations (KTO) during the ground war and subsequent mopping-up operations.
Made in the USA they had been supplied to Iraq via Jordan.

Nor were Scud and artillery bombardments isolated incidents.
Terry Walker was a Corporal with the Royal Army Ordnance Corp and detached
to a “Forward Repair Group” of an armoured workshop. He was
present at Al Jubayl when two Scuds exploded above them.[viii] No prior
warning was sounded. This, he recalls was the “worst morning with
two almighty explosions above the Port .” Immediately Chemical detectors
madly sounded NBC Condition Black, and was “followed by sheer panic
with hundreds of guys running for cover.” Walker hid among the rocks
of the Port “for about four five hours.” Later, “an officer
came along saying we’ve been hit with chemical agents.” The
next day he and the other personnel on the base were told the cloud vapour
was nothing more than aircraft fuel leaking from a damaged plane - an explanation
he and the others disbelieve. Aviation fuel does not trigger the NAIAD detectors.
Today, Walker suffers from a number of illnesses and strongly believes there
has been a massive cover-up. “My wife is ill and my little girl is
ill too,” he said during a telephone interview, then added that his
“medical notes from the RAF hospital have gone missing.”

The Al Jubayl attack was also witnessed by Sergeant Major
Paul Grant who commanded a team of Royal Army Ordnance Corp specialists.
On the early hours of 19 January 1991, Grant was awoken by a distinctive
overhead explosion. He is in no doubt, whatsoever, that this was an airburst,
not a ground explosion. NAIADS detectors began sounding NBC Condition Black.
The first explosion was followed by a second airburst explosion. Around
the base loudspeakers warned “this is not a drill.” His story
corroborates that of other Vets I have interviewed. Scud chemical attacks
were not limited to Al Jubayl.[ix]

Yet despite this testimony these and other Vets continue
to be treated with official contempt. As recently as January 1997, the Countess
of Mar posed a Parliamentary question in the House of Lords which asked
if the MoD had any “documentary evidence of chemical warfare”
in the Gulf conflict. A curious question which was limited only to “chemical
attack.” Questions regarding the use of “biological” weapons
remain unutterable. In his reply, the Earl Howe stated that research conducted
by the MoD “does not indicate any confirmed use of chemical warfare
agents during the conflict.” It is an even more curious answer. Who,
conceivably could “confirm” the use of chemical weapons other
than those trained soldiers - present during a chemical attack?” Likewise,
the tens of thousands of “detection’s” triggered by chemical
agent detectors throughout the conflict are simply categorised as “alleged
detection’s,” which were “uncorroborated at the time.”
Again, a careful and deceitful choice of words.[x][xi]

But behind the intentional use of chemical agents by Iraq
lurks a far more sinister story. Hitherto, it has not being told in any
detail. Biological weapons, unlike chemical agents, don’t just kill
on the battlefield. Survivors returning home carry with them the potential
seeds of destruction. These, in turn, can infect the families of Gulf War
vets - a fact that is now occurring.

Importantly, the British and US governments were well aware
of the potential use of both chemical and biological weapons by Saddam Hussein.
They had, after all, supplied him with the wherewithal to develop his ferocious
CB armoury. This included sophisticated equipment together with the necessary
chemical precursors and biological cultures. This knowledge led the British
and US governments to vaccinate their troops with a “cocktail”
designed to protect them against both chemical and biological attack. Vaccines
given to coalition troops included amongst others Anthrax, Botulism and
Bubonic Plague . Cultures for all three had been supplied to Iraq by the
US government during the middle-late 1980’s for use in their CB weapons
programme.[xii]

BIO WEAPONS & THE SECRET TEAM

“British personnel were infected with Anthrax spores.”
Angus Parker spoke with quiet certainty. I had interviewed a number of Gulf
War veterans who recounted their experiences of coming under chemical and
biological (CB) attack from the Iraqi’s. All are angry and frustrated
at the stonewalling attitude of Britain’s Ministry of Defence regarding
their numerous illnesses which fall under the catch-all banner of Gulf War
Syndrome. Eventually, one vet had given me a telephone number saying “You
should speak to Angus.”

Initially Parker was cautious, but after a few minutes warmed
to his story. Methodically, he first outlined for me the existing Soviet
battlefield doctrine associated with Scud missiles armed with Chemical and
Biological weapons. This is known, Parker said as “a mixed load.”
The Scud warhead would typically consist of a combination of explosives,
chemical and biological agents of mixed intensities. The explosive would
be small, but sufficient to ensure that the CB mixture would form a wide
vapour plume over the target. The bulk of the warhead would contain a deathly
cocktail of Chemical and Biological weapons.

A former soldier in the Territorial Army, Parker operated
for a top secret British unit. He has never before gone on record with the
following story, but frustration mixed with growing anger has led him to,
in his own words “blow this wide open.”

Following the Injection of 12 vaccines in one morning, Parker
reacted to them. As a result he was hospitalised and his deployment to the
Gulf delayed. “I was left behind and got out on the last days of the
ground war,” he said. This and his civilian occupation as a technician
in a haematology lab resulted in being attached to the “1st Field
Laboratory Unit,” known as “The Secret Team.” The unit
“existed only once before in World War One, but was mothballed until
the Gulf War,” Parker stated, adding that when he returned from the
Gulf he was told that “I was not to disclose the nature or role of
the team I was serving with.” So secret was the unit that “it
does not appear in any listing,” he added.[xiii] [xiv]

What Angus Parker has revealed is extremely disturbing. The
1st Field Laboratory Unit was composed of 40 men working in 8 teams of five.
It had been deployed from Porton Down, Britain’s biological warfare
headquarters. Parker, ranked sergeant, was second in command of one of the
five man teams. “As the biological warfare recconaisance team, we
were sampling the environment looking for biological weapons,” he
said, adding “…this was “difficult and hard to do. We
could only identify four agents - Plague, Anthrax, Botulism toxin A &
B… that’s all.” Effectively, the specialised equipment
they had to work with to identify bio-weapons were not very sophisticated.
Parker confirms that his unit found numerous positive samples of biological
organisms that couldn’t be analysed and identified on the battlefield.
“Many, many more were present,” than the four they could identify.
Positive samples were collected and shipped in freezer units to Boscombe
Down for analysis by the Porton Down CB specialists.

Significantly, in addition to confirming that his unit positively
identified the presence of Anthrax at Dhahran, he also revealed that another
team of the 1st Field Laboratory Unit identified the presence of Plague
at Wadi Al Batin. Parker has tried in vain to get other members of his unit
to come forward and speak openly, but they are too scared to do so. “They’re
not sick and still have their jobs,” he explained.

Parker is not alone in revealing the use of biological weapons
in the Gulf War. US Marine Corps battlefield logs released under the Freedom
of Information Act confirm the findings of Porton Down’s “Secret
Team.” On 24 February 1991, the US Army’s 513th Military Intelligence
Brigade confirmed the use of Anthrax at King Khalid Military City.[xv] However,
like events in Britain, important and potentially incriminating records
have mysteriously gone “missing.” Two US Marines at Camp Pendleton,
San Diego went on the record to say they observed “hundreds of records
from the Gulf war being destroyed.”[xvi] This and numerous other accounts
of records being destroyed and “missing” can only lead to charges
of a massive “Gulf-Wargate” cover-up.

A Senate Report entitled “Arming Iraq: The Export of
Biological Materials and the Health of Gulf War Veterans,” underscores
the biological threat possessed by the Iraqi’s. More often referred
to as the “Riegle Report,” named after it’s author Donald
J. Riegle Jr, the report itemises biological cultures supplied to Iraq by
the US. Riegle and his team identified no less than 61 batches of biologically
hazardous materials exported to Iraq. “Between the years 1985 and
1989, the United States Government approved the sales of quantities of potentially
lethal biological agents that could have been cultured and grown in very
large quantities in an Iraqi biological warfare program,” Riegle stated.
These included Pathogenic materials “which means disease-producing
items, and toxigenic, meaning poisonous items.”[xvii] The report adds
that “…we were not able to get any records prior to 1985.”
Riegle then went on to read an extract from a Department of Defense summary
report written in 1992.

“By the time of the invasion of Kuwait, Iraq had developed
biological weapons. It’s advanced and aggressive biological warfare
program was the most advanced in the Arab world. The program probably began
in the 1970’s and concentrated on the development of two agents, botulinum
toxin and anthrax bacteria…Delivery means for biological agents ranged
from simple aerial bombs and artillery rockets to surface-to-surface missiles.”

Other biological agents provided by the US to Saddam Hussein’s
biological warfare programme included histoplasma capsulatum, which can
cause symptoms resembling tuberculosis and lead to the enlargement of the
liver and spleen as well as anaemia and skin disease - symptoms that many
Veterans now exhibit. Another organism was Brucella melintensis which when
weaponised causes chronic fatigue, profuse sweating and loss of appetite,
joint pains, insomnia, nausea and can potentially result in major damage
to the vital organs. Again, these symptoms reflect the conditions experienced
by thousands of Gulf War veterans. In addition to the foregoing, shipments
to Iraq also included “E. Coli and genetic materials, human and bacterial
DNA.”[xviii]

Furious at the way the Defense Department have side-stepped
these disgraceful issues, Riegle fired off a volley of letters to various
officials. One letter identified that the “average cost” of
each of the various biological specimens shipped to Iraq, was “less
than $60.00, and that they were acquired from a not-for-profit organisation.”[xix]

Stories also circulate of a genetically engineered organism
being used in the Gulf War is paralleled by British vets who also claim
the use of a modified mycoplasma organism. This included Angus Parker who
had earlier said it was “an infectious organism manufactured in the
US.” Oddly enough, this is one of the enduring aspects of the Octopus
story involving engineered bio-organisms supplied to Iraq by Wackenhut Corp,
the giant US private-sector security company who’s Board of Directors
reads like a roll call of military and intelligence alumni. It is an allegation
supported by US investigative journalist Carol Marshall, in her manuscript
called “The Last Circle.[xx]”

Marshall had spent years investigating the allegations of
Michael Riconosciuto - a former CIA scientific whiz-kid. Working for the
Wackenhut Corp, at their Cabazon Indian tribe facility, Riconosciuto claimed
to have developed advanced and genetically altered biological warfare agents.
One, he claimed was a “race specific” organism genetically engineered
to attack certain races or groups. Unleashed it could kill or render ill
all those of a particular ethnic group, leaving others entirely unharmed.
Clearly, the possibility of genetically modified bio-weapons having been
used in the Gulf War cannot be entirely ruled out.[xxi]

Significantly, in the US Army War College publication dated
July 25, 1994, entitled “The Revolution in Military Affairs and Conflict
Short of War,” authors Steven Metz and James Kievit also discuss this
touchy subject. On page 16 they state “Certain biotechnical weapons
- considered by some to violate the biological warfare convention to which
the United States is a signatory - also may transgress American Values regarding
appropriate means.” They go on to ask “Could the government
and military of this multi-ethnic republic face charges that it was developing
or using a weapon targeting Africans, Jews Koreans, Hispanics etc?”
The authors then conclude “Overcoming these constraints… would
require fundamental changes in the United States - an ethical and political
revolution may be necessary to make a military revolution.” This,
the authors “hypothesise” could be achieved by re-modelling
the way Americans think and also via the effective control of news management
using “advanced psychotechnolgy” and other techniques such a
“morphing.”

EXPERIMENTAL VACCINES

If genetically engineered biological weapons are now available,
it is certain that there will have been developed the necessary antidotes
in the form of vaccines. All of the Vets I interviewed for this article
spoke of the large number of vaccines they were injected with. Sean Rusling
received 24 vaccinations over a four week period. Two of these vaccinations
are classified secret, and were, he believes “experimental.”
Richard Turnbull got a dose of 13 inoculations in just ten minutes. Four
of them were unidentified and classified secret. He also believes them to
have been experimental. Ray Bristow was informed in a letter from Brigadier
McDermott of the MoD, that some of his injections were also classified.
Later he was informed by The Surgeon General, Admiral Revell, that this
was not the case and that Brigadier McDermott’s statement was incorrect.

How many vaccines were classified secret? Surgeon General
Vice Admiral Revell, during a “Behind Closed Doors” meeting
of Parliaments Defence Committee, was asked “How many vaccines do
we not admit to?” His replied saying: “I think probably about
five or six.” [xxii] All previously classified vaccinnes were declassified
on 10 December 1996, according to a letter dated 20 January 1997 from the
Ministry of Defence. A spokesman at the MoD confirmed this in a telephone
call on Friday, 30 May 1997, adding that there were only three vaccines
that had ever been classified. These were, he told me: Anthrax, Pertussis
and Plague. This statement is confirmed in a letter to Shaun Rusling dated
20 January 1997, in which the Ministry of Defence confide “the vaccines
you were given against potential biological warfare threats were anthrax,
pertussis (as an adjuvant) and plague. These are the only vaccinations which
have ever been classified.” A far cry from the testimony of Surgeon
General Revell in the closed door hearings of the Defence Committee in which
he said there were “five or six” vaccines were not “admitted
to.”

I posed this discrepancy to the Ministry of Defence. Surgeon
General Revell’s testimony before the Defence Committee was “a
misunderstanding,” the MoD spokesman said. Despite this “misunderstanding,”
the medical records of Corporal Richard Turnbull clearly state that four
vaccines were classified secret, not three. Nor is Turnbull alone in this
respect. Ray Bristow’s list of shots, including Anthrax (batch no.
0190), Plague (batch no. 10H03A) and Peratussin Adjuvant (batch no. B1868a)
- to name just those three that were officially classified - also detail
two other vaccines labelled “biological.” These are still classified
secret and their contents remain “unknown.” The story is identical
for Shaum Rusling even down to the same batch numbers of the vaccines he
received.[xxiii] Surgeon General, Vice Admiral Revell stated in one letter
“Unfortunately, medical record keeping in the Gulf was not as thorough
as it should have been…” and that, as a consequence details
of certain vaccinations are now missing - a position that remains the governments
official line.

A number of Vets now believe they have been used as unwitting
Guinea pigs and are deeply concerned at what, precisely, may have been pumped
into them. Once again, Porton Down’s Angus Parker dropped another
bomshell. Patiently, he explained that “the MoD has not been totally
honest about the vaccines used against us.” I couldn’t help
but catch his use of the word “against”us instead of “on”
us. Clearly he now considers the Ministry of Defence and others in the Whitehall
bureaucracy to have become bitter enemies - and is by no means alone in
holding that view. A few Vets repeatedly warned me that the “Security
Services” are paying them close attention. Some have had their phones
tapped and others experience peculiar mail delivery problems.

Meanwhile, Parker went on to reveal the chemical structure
of one of the vaccines that are still, apparently, “not admitted to.”
“There is an experimental vaccine - an AIDS vaccine,” he said.
This “has been around since approximately 1990. He went on to explain
that this vaccine contains two components. One component is known as a “Cytokine.”
This, Parker, said is an “immune potentiator.” It works like
a “chemical messenger sent between different cells in the body.”
When it detects a foreign organism, “it actually stimulates a response
by the human immune system,” to fight and, hopefully, destroy the
alien organism present.

Parker’s analysis of this component was confirmed by
a spokesman for London’s Biochemical Society, who added that it was
“feasible” that Cytokines could be “purified and cloned”
and used to fight “against any agent.” The spokesman added,
moreover, that Cytokines were very “hush-hush,” were “cutting
edge technology” and “logically” would have been “adopted
by the military.” They were, she added, “experimental.”

According to Parker, the second component consisted of experimental
HIV gene envelopes. Parker went on to explain one of the basic problems
with this experimental vaccine. Whereas Cytokines readily drop out of the
body after awhile, “fragments” of the HIV genes do not. Although
there may have been “good operational reasons” for topping-up
the vaccine with HIV genes, Parker acknowledged that no one knows the long
term consequences. “it was experimental” he emphasised, and
had been originally developed by Porton Down as an AIDS vaccine. [xxiv]
[xxv]

The question of HIV gene envelopes was put to the Biochemical
Society’s spokesman, who stated that these envelopes “can be
created to be specifically resistant to CBW.” The spokesman went on
to explain that gene envelopes are effectively, the “walls”
that surround the nucleus of each cell and are thus, the first line of defence
against diseases - whether they be naturally acquired or as a result of
CB weapon attack. HIV gene envelopes are one of the most powerful and resistant
known to science, she added.

Professor Beverley of the Edward Jenner Institute for vaccine
Research could think of no theoretical reason why HIV gene envelopes would
be used other than to “stimulate a response against HIV.” He
went on to speculate that had HIV gene envelopes used in a vaccine, logically,
this would only have occurred as protection against a possible attack using
HIV as a bio-weapon. There was, he felt, no other conceivable reason, but
added, that had such a vaccine been “given to Gulf War soldiers it
would have been speculative.”

The picture that emerges is confusing. The use of Cytokines
does have a rational explanation in that they trigger the bodies immune
system. As such they could be an ideal general vaccine for use in a CB warfare
setting. The rationale of using HIV gene envelopes is, however, less certain
and considerably more perplexing. In the last analysis there is not enough
available detailed information in regard to the HIV gene envelopes to reach
anything but a speculative conclusion. Some weeks prior to my interview
with Professor Beverley, Angus Parker had told me in a throw away comment
“I don’t even want to get in to AIDS as a weapon.” At
that time nor did I. Professor Beverley’s certitude that this is the
only conceivable reason why HIV gene envelopes would have been used, leaves
a sour taste in my mouth.

However, for clarity’s sake I leave the last word with
Angus Parker. Told of Professor Beverley’s theory he remained adamant
that there was another reason why HIV gene envelopes had been used. His
information, he insisted, came directly from the horse’s mouth. I
am inclined to accept what he has revealed. At the outbreak of the Gulf
War there were not enough stocks of Cytokines to go around. Thus a decision
was made to top them up with the HIV gene envelopes which, he assured me,
act in a very similar fashion to Cytokines: they trigger the bodies immune
system. Significantly, this had been confirmed by Professor Beverley when
he said “they do indeed trigger and regulate the way the body relates
to pathogens.”[xxvi]

Clearly, Parker’s revelations - if proved true - are
stunning.[xxvii] The secret use of an experimental vaccine on British military
personnel may be one of the most significant reasons why the Ministry of
Defence continue to stonewall Vets about the vaccines they received. To
admit to involuntary human testing on such a sensitive issue will lead to
a public relations disaster of huge proportions. As one ill Vet told me
“I was ordered to volunteer” for the shots. He now wishes he
hadn’t. The second potential reason clearly opens a can of worms about
the possible development of HIV as a biological weapon.[xxviii]

But there are other equally powerful reasons to keep the
lid on the Gulf War Syndrome story. Pat Eddington, the former CIA analyst
has no doubt that the principal reason for the US governments stonewalling
tactic is to cover-up the supply of CB weapons to Iraq prior to the Gulf
War. For the US government to admit to such cynical irresponsibility would
result in public outrage, Eddington says. Eddington also chastises the Senate
whose members selfishly refuse to act against the wishes of the Pentagon.
Their delinquency of duty has resulted in the side-lining of in excess of
100,000 Gulf War veterans who now exhibit a range of symptoms typical of
chemical, and in some case, biological attack. In this “business as
usual” scenario, Eddington also reserves some powder and shot for
the major media who are largely willing to accept - at face value - the
cloying PR handouts from the Department of Defence. Hopelessly abandoned
by one and all, many thousands of vets have now died as a result of their
chemically inspired battle injuries, adding even more incentive to the Pentagon
to continue the cover-up.

But in the last analysis the reasons surrounding the British
and US governments disgraceful obfuscation are many. Certainly, the prior
supply of CB weapons to Iraq is enough to make many government officials
quake with the fear of disgrace. It is a similar rationale that continues
to eclipse the illegal use of experimental, unlicensed and highly sensitive
drugs. Not least, however, is the knowledge that defence against chemical
and biological weapon attacks is utterly shambolic. Pat Eddington states
that CBW protective suits and gas masks are: “a)notoriously defective
and b) in very short supply—two problems that have yet to be corrected
more than six years later.” He adds “That’s not something
the Pentagon wants to advertise to the likes of Hashemi Rafsanjani, Kim
Jong 11, or Colonel Qaddafi.”[xxix]

Yet few can doubt the intelligence services of North Korea,
Iran or Libya are already aware of the published shortcomings of US and
British CBW protective equipment. A more significant fear may be the realisation
inside the Pentagon and the Ministry of Defence that their own troops will
be less than willing to wade into a future CB battle zone virtually buck-naked.

Armed only with an uncertain dose of HIV but the certain
knowledge that - thanks to the grace of greed and military commercialism
- those chemical and biological organisms you are about to inhale and absorb
have “made at home” stencilled all over them… would you
volunteer for military service?

ENDS

[i] The 20 Jan 91 CB attack on Dhahran is confirmed in US
CENTCOM battlefield logs obtained under FOIA. Delivery was via a Scud missile.

[iv] Eddington convincingly argues - based on captured Iraqi
documents - that chemical and bio-warfare agents were used in non-lethal
doses. This explains why coalition troops did not keel over and die immediately.
Iraqi CB doctrine was to use low, but repetitive doses, which they calculated
would produce greater long term damage, Eddington says.

[v] US CENTCOM logs confirmed a later Scud attack on Hafir
Al Batin on 14 February 1991

[vi] Telephone interview with this writer dated 13 May 1997

[vii] Telephone interview with this writer dated 13 May 1997

[viii] The Al Jubayl incident is the most comprehensively
documented case of CB attack by the Iraqi’s. Records obtained under
FOIA indicate that Scuds were not used. Delivery of the CB weapon was almost
certainly as a result of aircraft penetration, possibly a Russian manufactured
Sukhoi (SU 22 “Fitters”) fighter-bomber.

[ix] Telephone interview with this writer dated 15 May 1997

[x] Parliamentary Q & A’s in this writer’s
possession

[xi] A total of 55 incidents have been recorded to date by
US CENTCOM logs. CB attacks began on 17 January 1991 and continued throughout
the ground war in all major sectors.

[xii] See report by Senator Donald Riegle to Senate dated
9 February 1994. Bacillis Antracasis Cohn and Clostridium Botulinum type
A were shipped on 2 May 1988. In all, Riegle was able to identify no less
than 61 biological cultures supplied to Iraq between 1985-9. Some of these
included human gene clones.

[xiii] Telephone interview with this writer dated 13 &
14th May 1997.

[xiv] I have been given a copy of a MoD written statement
regarding the 1st Field Laboratory Unit which states “We can confirm
that this unit operated in the Gulf. It’s primary task was related
to the detection of biological warfare agents, of which there was a real
and compelling threat. As part of their work they were monitoring the effectiveness
of the biological immunisation programme

[xx] Running to 140 pages, the manuscript is a comprehensive
investigation into the so called “Octopus.”

[xxi] Significantly, the International Committee of the Red
Cross are concerned at the developments of “genetic weapons”
and fear that “the possibility exists for their misuse for political
ends.” The ICRC are warn that developments may, or could be taking
place of gene/race specific weapons. See “Expert Meeting on Certain
Weapon Systems and on Implementation mechanisms in International War”
published by the ICRC, Geneva July 1994.

[xxii] A copy of this memorandum is in my possession.

[xxiii] The only difference is that Rusling received a Hepatitis
B jab, whereas Bristow received Hepatitis A. In all other respects their
lists of vaccines are identical - including two that remain classified.

[xxiv] Parker states that he has received confirmation of
the use of the HIV gene vaccine from a well placed and extremely knowledgeable
source, who he is unable to identify.

[xxv] I understand Porton Down deny any involvement in HIV
research, but see below.

[xxvi] I couldn’t help but note the use of the plural,
a usage that seems inconsistent with his otherwise firm statement.

I had taken me two days and numerous phone calls before I
was able to make final contact Prof. Beverley. I had been given his number
by an individual working in the field of immunology. Unbeknownst to me at
the time, this individual had contacted Porton Down, revealing the interest
and direction of my questions - a fact she revealed the following day when
I phoned back with an additional question. Meanwhile, Angus Parker was told,
via a circuitous route, that the MoD were very “displeased”
with him for talking to me. A Paranoid may well consider that two days “in
the world of shadows,” is a very long time indeed?

[xxvii] It also raises the question why Britain’s top
secret bio-warfare lab is involved in developing an AIDS vaccine? The possibility
that AIDS has been “weaponised” - apparently a technical possibility
- is an old and largely discounted story attributed to a cold war disinformation
campaign.

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